Germany, Imperial. A Pilot’s Badge, Owner-Attributed GTRexclude August 1918

August 1918

Stitched onto the upper right breast flap is an additional insignia consisting of a black wool backer bearing a hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

with Overhoff & Cie stamp on reverse (paper tag is slightly torn)

an intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label is stitched to the cap underneath the sweatband

Germany, Imperial. A Pilot’s Badge, Owner-Attributed GTRexclude August 1918(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Constructed of silvered tombak, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a German State Crown, around a central depiction of a monoplane flying over a rural landscape, the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, bearing an engraved owners name of WILLI REIBER, 14. 2. 17, measuring 45. 16 mm (w) x 70. 24 mm (h),